Captive big cat breeding programs carry risk of death not present in the wild

There is a story in The Times today about animal rights groups up in arms over a lioness that was killed at Longleat Safari Park in the UK. There have been seven similar incidents at zoos and safari parks across Britain over the past seven years including this recent one at Longleat. The female was …

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Ukraine: escaped chimp is hugged by woman and he returns to zoo on keeper’s bicycle

NEWS AND COMMENT-KHARKIV, UKRAINE: The back story to this news item is the war in Ukraine and we know that Kharkiv has been attacked on numerous occasions by Putin’s forces causing death and destruction to civilians in their apartments. Set against that background we have a chimpanzee who escaped Kharkiv Zoo on Monday. There are …

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine say that Russians are shelling animal shelters and zoos

NEWS AND COMMENT-UKRAINE: The Russian invasion of Ukraine continues as the war grinds on into a war of attrition although recently Putin has realised that he can’t win it and therefore is scaling back. But for the last two weeks at least, the Russian army has been shelling animal shelters and zoos in Ukraine. This …

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Penguin from Budapest Zoo “arrested” on main road at night

This is a good picture which caught my eye of a police officer in Budapest, Hungary, “arresting” a lonely penguin who was minding his own business marching down the centre of a main highway having escaped from his prison, namely Budapest Zoo. It tickles me a little bit because zoos are prisons in a way …

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Carrie Johnson’s plans to fly 13 elephants to Kenya are unjustifiably criticised

Carrie Johnson is both the wife of the Prime Minister of the UK and the head of public relations for the Aspinall Foundation. She issued a press release recently stating that the foundation will be working with the Kenya Wildlife Service on a “world first to re-world an entire breeding herd of 13 African elephants, …

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